752. The Sword Saint Has Been Resurrected

"The Northern Territory's army destroyed Kees at sea?" Duke Lorenzo, who had just received the news from Sophia, found it somewhat unbelievable. "How could the Fungal Fortress send troops that far away to wipe out bugs that weren't much of a threat to them yet? Could it have been the Empire's—no, it shouldn't be—"

Before he could finish, Lorenzo rejected the idea himself.

Although the United Kingdom's intelligence on the Empire was somewhat behind, it was not completely ignorant.

He also knew that the Empire was currently carrying out a large-scale purge of the Fungal Carpet within its borders. Since that was the case, it naturally couldn't possibly be building some Puji Master army.

But he still couldn't understand why the Fungal Fortress's army had appeared there.

Samuel, standing behind the Hero, said, "We suspect they came out through the Dungeon's Spatial Rift. If the Tidal Sanctuary was their starting point, that battlefield wasn't all that far away. It's just—"

"It's just hard to imagine any force using such an unstable passage to transfer an army," Lorenzo finished the point Samuel found puzzling for him.

As a duke, he naturally couldn't be ignorant of the Spatial Rifts unique to Dungeons. However, these rifts could not exist stably, and only a very small number of Adventurers who did not care whether they could return would risk crossing them. No rational commander would ever use one as a passage for an army.

As for a method to maintain a Spatial Rift stably, no such thing existed within Lorenzo's knowledge.

Even now, after some discussion, they could only speculate that the Fungal Fortress had chosen this all-or-nothing tactic in order to obtain something from Kees.

Sophia also went over the matter of the mist accelerating its advance, and Priest Samuel stated bluntly that